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Classic poem

On the Bust of Helen by Canova

by George Gordon, Lord Byron

In this belovéd marble view

Above the works and thoughts of Man,

What Nature _could_ but _would not_ do,

And Beauty and Canova _can!_

Beyond Imagination's power,

Beyond the Bard's defeated art,

With Immortality her dower,

Behold the _Helen_ of the heart.

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